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The mission of TLDR is to evolve the DeFi space by generating new research and implementing existing research through a conference and fellowship.

TLDR Fellowships

About the Fellows Program

The Fellowship program is for engineers, academics and students who want to shape the future of decentralized finance. As a Fellow, you’ll receive a salary and intellectual support to fully immerse yourself in the world of DeFi while crafting your own unique journey.

Fellowship Details

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Meet the Research Council

At the heart of the TLDR Conference and Fellowship program is our Research Council, composed of thought leaders and DeFi experts, dedicated to guiding fellows in their research journeys.

John Adler

Director of Protocol Engineering
"Building Scalable Decentralized Payment Systems"
blockchain protocol design, incentive structures, resource pricing

Guillermo Angeris

Head of research at Bain Capital Crypto
“Improved Price Oracles: Constant Function Market Makers” and "Concave pro-rata games"
OPTIMIZATION, CFMMS, PROBABILITY

Tarun Chitra

Gauntlet, Robot Ventures
“Improved price oracles: Constant function market makers" and "Towards a theory of maximal extractable value i: Constant function market makers”
CONVEX OPTIMIZATION, CFMMS, MEV, AUCTIONS, SPIN GLASSES

Theo Diamandis

PhD student at MIT and researcher at Bain Capital Crypto
“Dynamic Pricing for Non-fungible Resources: Designing Multidimensional Blockchain Fee Markets”
OPTIMIZATION, CONVEX ANALYSIS, MEV, CFMMS

Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira

Harvard Postdoctoral Fellow
“Credible Decentralized Exchange Design via Verifiable Sequencing Rules”
AI, ALGORITHMIC ECONOMICS AND SECURITY

Pranav Garimidi

a16z Crypto Research
"Transaction Fee Mechanism Design in a Post-MEV World"
MEV, Auction Design, Fee Mechanisms, Algorithmic Game Theory

Assimakis Kattis (Aki)

New York University
“RedShift: Transparent SNARKs from List Polynomial Commitments”
ZERO-KNOWLEDGE PROOF DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT, CONSENSUS PROTOCOLS AND ZKP MECHANISM DESIGN

Kshitij Kulkarni

UC Berkeley / Gauntlet
"Routing MEV in Constant Function Market Makers" and "An Analysis of Intent Based Markets"
Mechanism design, game theory, optimization

Mallesh Pai

Associate Professor, Rice University and Principal Researcher, Consensys Inc
"Censorship Resistance in On-Chain Auctions" (with Elijah Fox and Max Resnick)
Market Microstructure for MEV, Blockchain Mechanism Design

Dan Robinson

Paradigm
"Leaderless Auctions"
MEV Auctions, L2 Sequencers, Power Perpetuals

Raffi Sapire

Uniswap Foundation
MEV + Oracle research implemented as hooks on Uniswap v4, Flashloan/sandwich auctions, Routers, Incentive Design

Danning Sui

Flashbots
“Measuring the impact of hidden DEX costs”
MEV, DEX, DATA RESEARCH
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The Uniswap Foundation has committed up to $3,000,000 over the next 3 years to DeFi Research.

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